LENIN COLLECTION

TELEGRAM TO YEKATERINBURG
TO THE REGIONAL SOVIET OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS
[21 May 1918]

I earnestly
request
that you render all possible assistance in all respects to my good comrades
who rendered me great services:
to Citizen Hildur Haikonen.¹
Address — Hotel Metropol,
Yekaterinburg, to her brother
Alexander Haikonen, her comrades Paul Palmfeldt, Anna Ovan and Henry
Petersen. Inform us how and in what manner you have assisted them.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

Printed from the telegraph blank

¹ Hildur Haikonen — a veteran of the Finnish Communist Party, sister of the wife
of Latukki, in whose family V. I. Lenin lived in the autumn of 1917 during the
period of his final underground activity. Lenin's telegram was a response to
Haikonen's request for assistance in enabling her and her relatives to depart
abroad; on 25 May 1918 Lenin received a telegram from her expressing gratitude
for the aid.

EXCHANGE OF NOTES WITH L. A. FOTIEVA

[22 May 1918]

Will the protocols of the Small Soviet be approved today?

No.
(*In yesterday's [minutes] there is [a matter] concerning the appropriation to the Samara Supreme Council of the National Economy of 1 million rubles.¹
A Samaretz is going about and waiting for a decision. Perhaps this item should be considered?
Pravdin² or Petrovsky³ should take the floor in order.

¹ The correspondence of V. I. Lenin with the Secretary of the Council of People's Commissars L. A. Fotieva took place during the session of the Council of People's Commissars on 22 May 1918. The decision of the Small Soviet concerning the appropriation to the Samara Supreme Council of the National Economy of 1,000,000 rubles for the support of nationalized enterprises was made on 21 May and was approved at the session of the Council of People's Commissars on 24 May 1918.

² A. G. Pravdin — Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs.

³ G. I. Petrovsky — People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the RSFSR in 1917–1919.

* The text of L. A. Fotieva's note beginning with the words "In yesterday's..." V. I. Lenin circled with a brace.

(DECEMBER 1917)–1918
YEARS

NOTE TO L. D. TROTSKY

24 May 1918

Comrade Trotsky,

Comrade Ter-Gabrielyan,¹ the bearer of this note, is traveling to Baku with a military detachment, with money, etc. I request that you receive him without delay and utilize the detachment's journey for urgent measures of military assistance to the Baku workers.²

Lenin

¹ S. M. Ter-Gabrielyan — one of the leaders of the Baku Commune. On 23 May 1918 the Council of People's Commissars issued him a certificate signed by V. I. Lenin confirming that Ter-Gabrielyan was dispatched to Baku to undertake all measures for the immediate export of oil from Baku via the Volga (see "Bolsheviks in the Struggle for the Victory of the Socialist Revolution in Azerbaijan," Baku, 1957, p. 421).

² Military assistance was dictated by the threat to Baku from the Turks. This was mentioned in all reports from Tiflis (see the present collection, pp. 86–87).

EXCHANGE OF NOTES WITH L. D. TROTSKY

[1918, May, before the 29th]

German-Austrian troops in Ukraine — 500,000
Purely German — 350,000
There exists an agreement of Krasnov with the Germans:
1) general strategic direction by the Germans
2) union of the Don, Kuban, Ural and Siberian Cossacks
3) Germany supplies weapons and instructors on the same basis as for Ukraine

Whence come these reports?

When is the offensive [planned for]?

This is Odintsov — a general, military expert of the peace delegation, brought [this]. This intelligence work cost 12,045 rubles. He saw, he says, the text of the agreement. The Germans are not providing troops, but are providing officers and non-commissioned officers (25 and 10 marks per day on full provision). The offensive is apparently already considered to have begun.

1) How can this be?
2) Is it unclear?
3) Should not Chicherin send a written note to Mirbach setting forth a statement that the Germans have not come to terms with Krasnov?